Bottle-supporting gasket and air filter



Feb. 7, 1928. 1,658,227 A. DAVIS. JR

BOTTLE SUPPORTING GASKET AND AIR FILTER Filed Feb. 10. 192'! J0 i nmhl un A TTORNEY. 6

Patented Feb. 7, 1928.

UNITED STA TES-

ALLEN DAVIS, 33., OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CINO CHEMICAL PROD- UCTS COMPANY, 0

Application filed Feb My invention relates to a process for sterilizing and maintaining beverages in sterile condition and to apparatus and a system with which beverages may out deterioration. It is the object be dispensed withcooling fountains and to maintain the beverages in non-fermenting condition during a much longer period than been possible.

In the art the volume has heretofore of business which is conducted particularly in warm weather in the dispensing of drinks and the like is very beverages such as orange great. The usual method of dispensing such beverages is for the soda fountain or shop to have a cooler into which a large bottle or container filled with the beverage to be in inverted position.

In the manufacture o dispensed is inserted f orange drinks the manufacturer mixes certain percentages of oil of orange, sugar,

and ships the mixture in tles to the dispenser.

usually a cooler which having an open top with surrounding it.

citric acid an In order to ordinary large bot- The dispenser has consists of a vessel an ice compartment discharge the content of the bottle into the cooler, the bottle is elevated and inserted in top. A gasket .8 used tion within the open for sealing the joint and asket would prevent e rage from the bottle,

that small notches be cut in the gasket to admit air.

inverted posias the seal of a tight the release of the bevit has been suggested walls of the With beverages which are handled in accordance with the above noted plan there is much loss due to rancidity of the liquids. I have found that in order to avoid any tendeney toward rapid souring or rancidity that the beverage may be sterilized prior to being discharged into in a substantially sterile air which is admitted intothe fountain to break the vacuum wlthin the dispensing bottle.

the fountain and then kept state by filtering the I have shown in the drawings a preferred arrangement of dispensing apparatus with a novel sealing gasket of my invention.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a side asket or ring equippe ing ducts.

embodying the principle elevation of a sealing d with air steriliz- F CINCINNATI, OHIO,

d the like/Within the glass A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

BOTTLE-SUPPORTING GASKET AND AIR FILTER.

rnary 10, 1927. Serial No. 167,266.

Figure 2 is a section along the lines 2-2 111 Figure 1.

Figure 3 1s a diagrammatic section of a chamber formed by side and bottom walls 6 and having semicircular lids 7 which are hinged as indicated at 8 sothat ice may be inserted in the space surrounding the vessel.

The bottle is inserted into the 'openin in the vessel and a gasket or ring 9 having g ass tubes 10 inserted in apertures therein, provides a substantial seal so that the contents of the bottle will not run over the cooler. The weight of the bottle is ordinarily sulficient to form a tight seal against the ring.

tube-s I have inserted cotton, or wool fiber 11 or other suitable filtering means to sterilize the air which passes in through the glass tubes.

'With such an arrangement as I have shown, with the beverage properly Pasteurized, I am able to keep the liquid from turning rancid or sour or fermenting for a substantially much longer time than has, to the best of my'knowledge and belief, been possible heretofore.

There is a wide range of possibilities of accomplishing the same results by substitution of other filtering devices for sterilizing the air which is admitted to break the air seal. While I have shown a preferred arrangement in my novel gasket or sealing ring, I do not wish to be limited to the specific modification which I have described.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letthe passages.

ALLEN DAVIS, JR. 

